and vinnie does todos martin and this is breaking the set you know sometimes there's a story that just define hypocrisy one is how facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg bought out his neighbor in mansions so he could have some privacy nevermind the millions of facebook users his personal data is sold off to vulture businesses another is a story that broke just a few days ago the exxon is the largest natural gas producer in the u.s. and if you've been following the downward spiral of u.s. energy consumption you know that the government and big energy are pushing hard for fracking all across the country but don't you dare exxon c.e.o.'s rex tillerson the yard see this million or scumbag things it's perfectly ok to poison the planet with toxic pollution at the hands of his precious business but as soon

as his pristine landscape gets scarred well that's just not acceptable teller said in his rich neighbors have filed a lawsuit in an attempt to shut down a fracking project that's just a little too close to his texas mansion and the petition in the town to block a tower that would provide water for fracking because of how much of an eyesore it would be in the suit they actually go as far as claiming it's a legal it would create a noise nuisance and traffic hazards interestingly enough mr tillerson day job is literally to debunk the same claims he is making in the lawsuit and to promote hydraulic fracturing a practice is already been proven to cause earthquakes and birth defects of the very least in fact tellers and is even garren as far as saying that those who oppose and try to regulate fracking are quote holding back the american economic recovery growth and global competitiveness wow i find it absolutely fascinating that c.e.o.'s and politicians find it perfectly acceptable to completely strip the environment toxify the land and poison the air as long as it's someone else's land

someone else's family. someone else's life i'm just waiting for tellers and the set his own p.r. machine against himself after all he would want to be accused of holding back the growth of america what do you now let's break the set. please please. please very hard to take a. look. at or act like that hurt me there are those.

surveillance in the post nine eleven world are for the course but when news broke in two thousand and twelve the new york police department going outside of its jurisdiction to spy on large swathes of new jersey's muslim community people were a little surprised the n.y.p.d. is violation of civil liberties by indiscriminately spine and other states religious populations seemed obvious and in two thousand and twelve eight muslims filed a lawsuit against the city for targeting a community for its religion but last week a federal judge threw out the case altogether alleging that the surveillance was not a violation of civil liberties because it can be ducted to prevent terrorism even though no acts of terrorism are actually prevented from the spine and while there's a similar case pending in brooklyn this ruling could have set a dangerous precedent for the future well earlier i was joined by deepa kumar professor at rutgers university and author of the book as lama phobia and the politics of empire i first asked her to break down why the judge justified the

constitutionality of the program. if you look at the background of this case this case was brought by the center for constitutional rights and it's on behalf of new jersey muslims who have been surveillance for at least the last twelve years since two thousand and two so mosques and schools and community centers and student groups and even grade school does find we want to see a way out and the idea behind this lawsuit was to say that this is unconstitutional and this program should be suspended. but what the judge's ruling was that actually no harm was done by civilians you know never mind the psychological trauma that new jersey muslims faced how do we treat as you know in all of their institutions and so what. was done to the how harm that was done was by the associated press which broke the story the associated press did some amazing investigative journalism for

which they won the pulitzer prize the judge decided that they were the ones who published not the actual survey and so you know you have it in one fell swoop you have not only the justification for racial and religious profiling but it impacts on the press right in fact on the associated press and the idea that the press should be watchdogs of the government it is shocking that they would actually go as far as claiming that the harm wasn't the surveillance system itself it was just the press of the fact that surveillance was happening i mean what do you think about that claim. well i think this is a completely specious claim i think that it's this ruling absolutely sends the wrong message it sends a green light not only to the n.y.p.d. to continue these practices of surveillance but to police agencies all over the country this week and even with absolute impunity might lead to civil liberties off them spent i want to read from the. document that the judge produced this is what he said he said quote the police could not have

a bomb if you just see for muslim terrorist activities without monitoring the muslim community itself the motive for the program was not solely to discriminate against muslims but rather to find muslim terrorists hiding among ordinary mall fighting muslims which is just so deeply racist you know it's a cultural racism that says that people who practice islam are sort of programmed to. inspect energies and the mindset of the n.y.p.d. being released a document in two thousand and seven cold terrorism in the west the homegrown threat in which they argue that there is a four step process of radicalization in which if you are just a young muslim man you are already at stage one then you become religious you start smoking drinking and you start down to religion track and once you pop ice age right and this is really such a simplistic and problematic notion of white people to luncheon by and said frank

you this is cultural racism martin is a former republican congressman a bush appointees even been removed from a racketeering and murder case in the past for his lack of impartiality so concerning his past how much do you think martina's personal politics played into the ruling well i'm sure a lot of you because there are at least a schools of thought to be well the republican school of thought that was conservative school of thought tends to be very simplistic in the way it mirrors the muslim terrorist enemy threat. and i have no doubt that that be the huge role in this how was the n.y.p.d. justified and spying on locations completely outside of its jurisdiction yes well frankly this entire program is not illegal because a cia agent was responsible for setting this program up so first of all the cia should not be involved in any kind of domestic spying on their sought so there is so many ways in which you know what the n.y.p.d.

should be doing the cia should be doing has been completely irate in this case and you have accused was actually brought by a man by the name of assad is the. natural and and you know i believe went off to fight in the iraq war but then he comes back and finds this last piece around so you know the logic is we'll send you to go fight for oil and so forth when you come back you're part of a suspect community. believe a bowl or you mention kind of the message the clear message that this ruling sends i mean expand on that what kind of precedent do you think it will set for future widespread surveillance by law enforcement agencies across the country well you know you have there's already been since two thousand and two widespread programs of the sort of the n.y.p.d. is not the only institution the f.b.i. various you know no good police departments in them involved in risk but the key to keep in mind is that you just stands even though this program has been in the facts

and still thousand and two there has not been one seemed to be related to terrorist activity level of terrorism conviction and actually this is consistent with nationwide statistics in the ten years since nine eleven off the one hundred fifty thousand murders in the united states most americans in the response were probably thirty three of them right and so the question is why so many resources spent by police departments are giddy at the right. by the national security agency and film on so amazing it's american well what it comes down to i think really is the fact we have seen the massive development group not only the vehemency but a national security state that's relying on the scene watching an interview in nine eleven on a and to be more global terrorist everywhere so we have to run its national it's not not a monkey. it's national security speech isn't about keeping us the right to think

about what americans die from being died on more often from things not i was pleased to read injuries forty five thousand americans die each year not go back to health get right but there's no war on people profits outguess systems what it is i want i'm liking the next book that i'm writing it's really about national security the thing got the you also once the. justifying got national security team is about creating the enemy and creating programs that block by the way not just some americans but all the sensor data that they alexion of new york city mayor bill de blasio has made a tangible difference and both the approach of minority surveillance and stop infrastructure is fine a lot of people are kind of disappointed and so far. yeah i mean the retarded me i think it made some difference because de blasio around the clock to when he not ok to reject the stop and frisk but he also promised them to new york city that he

would curtail new known to prevent the program and only pacific cases where there was actually intelligence he was sanctioned this time suzanne but to the best of my knowledge on the night he done many things out of this and the one thing that he has done is actually we. a new police commissioner know who you know if you know this not will be able brag he was the chief will be any yet why was there actually the number of interest cases founded by fifty percent was the most he was spotted looking for with you know he had anybody who can you don't program it with all of the community not the program just got to do exactly the same thing with most americans who didn't come to fruition because there was a huge make up cry deepika maher professor rutgers university author islamophobia and the politics empire always a pleasure having on thank you. so ground you guys all break down the real well for

a problem in this country. that you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and i was crushed cynical we've been hijacked like handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once it's all just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing us to find a job ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture.

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perhaps one of the most controversial and politicized issues in america is of welfare yes i'm talking about all those status who can't get their grubby hands out of uncle sam's pockets on the heels of obama signing a farm bill that will cut funding to food stamps by eight billion dollars a new report by good jobs first has exposed the absurd amount of taxpayer dollars are going to provide welfare not for the poor but for wealthy corporations of course corporate welfare is not really mentioned on the corporate press as a problem but i wonder why it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that it's owned by five corporations credit well the report is aptly titled subsidizing the corporate one percent revealing that state and local governments have shelled out

at least one hundred ten billion dollars to companies doing business in the us of a the study compiles figures over several years analyzing the many ways these companies are enjoying special treatment which will come in the form of everything from utility discounts to cash giveaways in theory the government justifies corporate subsidies to incentivize business growth and to support startup industries and if applied in that way i'm not entirely against it but the stats and lack of transparency paint a much different picture to the majority of these subsidies are going to only a select few of the richest of the rich companies in the country so which mega corporations are benefiting the most first off there is dow chemical at fifty seven billion dollars company that's been exploiting us energy policy for years dallas surpassed any other corporation on the list by the sheer number of subsidies it's received four hundred and sixteen in total adding up to one point four billion dollars now. except digital science company intel which manufactures aerospace

components made number three on the list which fifty eight subsidies totaling three point eight billion dollars or take aluminum company which has taken ninety one subsidies totaling five point six billion dollars in fact the amount that outlaw receives in government handouts far exceeds their annual profits as journalist david johnston points out on the basis of its pretax income for the last four years these subsidies amount all the pretax profits can expect for the next one hundred and eighty nine years wow so this company is essentially running on government cash nice also interesting that makes no public mention of these massive subsidies that its annual shareholders meeting finally topping the list at number one cash cow recipient is boeing with one hundred thirty seven subsidies totaling a staggering thirteen billion dollars now boeing is notorious for holding jobs hostage while states fight each other for its contracts this thirteen billion

dollars in handouts reflects the amazing deals lucky boeing has clearly made with states like washington and south carolina keep in mind that boeing is the number who provider for america's military machine which i don't think is an industry that deserves financial breaks guys the subsidies in this report are often in the form of tax abatement under which underscores exactly how much burden falls on average taxpayers because many of these massive corporations are relying on government welfare for profit employees that actually earn the money from their sales an organization called citizens for tax justice points out that at the end of the day this tax burden hits the poor especially hard adding that quote in every state low income taxpayers pay more as a share of income in the wealthiest one percent remember this report doesn't even take into account federal subsidies which highlights the need for more. apparently on the issue of corporate welfare so you tell me which makes more sense continuing

to bicker about food stamps or addressing the same corporate welfare that actually perpetuates poverty all in the name of job creation. america's one of the only so-called represented democracies in the world that is utterly dominated by two parties the democrats and the republicans the left versus the right it's all manufactured paradigm when in reality both parties are more in line of the each other and the majority of americans are in line with them it's even more frustrating is how hard it is to break through the political system as an independent or third party candidate without being completely marginalized by the media when one woman is taking that chance her name is marianne williamson and she's running as an independent for california's thirty third district but she's

also been a new york times best selling author on the subject of spirituality and self-improvement four different times she joins me now to talk about her transition from self-help guru to politician thanks so much for coming on. thank you so much for having me marian you're primarily known as a spiritual teacher and author not exactly something someone associates with politics so why do you decide to jump into the political ring. well isn't that the problem though that anybody is not associated with politics isn't part of the problem that we have a kind of political class and politics has become a kind of spectator sport everybody should feel that they're part of that show even eisenhower said politics should be the part time profession of every american citizen a very good point i totally agree with you it's time to take it out of the inside baseball and i have exaggerated and i have an imposed op ed you wrote recently entitled a funny thing happened on the way to the primary i want to read a quote from it we don't have an open political system we have a. by political parties that decides who gets to play whoever is playing however

nice a person is part of the same conversation we've been having for years the stillborn our rhetoric that promises to do little more than perpetuate the system as it is i cannot agree more with how have you experienced this phenomenon firsthand is someone running outside of the two party structure. well you know i think more than anything else we just have to disinter all ourselves as lincoln would say it's just a thought we have you know we have a two party to operate as you're well aware and it has a choke hold on the system and it's sucking the oxygen out of our public discourse but there's no need for it i think americans just need to be taught to love our own history there's no mention of political parties in our founding document george washington warned us against them in his farewell address abolition did not come from a major party suffrage did not come from the major party the civil rights movement did not come from the major party the parties although they certainly have their role to play but there are they should be here to serve us we shouldn't be having

to filter all of our thoughts through their idiology and you know j.f.k. said we should be seeking not the democratic answer or the republican answer but the right answer and at a time today as you mentioned yourself when the more disturbing news is how similar they are compared to how dissimilar they are i think it's time for some voices that just don't buy into the idea that we have to be one or the other and you describe yourself as a lifelong democrat you're running as an independent why did you choose to distance yourself from the party and what do you see as the most fundamental flaw of the left wing establishment. but i don't think of myself as really distancing from the party i think the party has distanced itself from me i think if you look at someone like bernie sanders here he acts in many cases more like a democrat as i think of a democrat acting than many democrats do and so what's happened today is that progressives have this codependent relationship with the democratic party they keep getting more. corporatist and in many cases more militarist and progressive say oh

ok and enable them one more time one thing i have to give to the tea party they're not in a codependent relationship with the republican party and i think it's really important for progressives who are treated like the democratic party in too many cases not all cases but in too many like you know we we come to when there's an election we ignore you till the next one i just think many of us can't tell the line anymore i just know that i can't but i would caucus with democrats you know like i said i am a bobby kennedy democrat and it's hard it's like well stone said i'm from the democratic wing of the democratic party it's hard for me as a democrat to find too much comfort anymore within the purview of the democratic party you know i'm open i hope that this election you know one of the reasons i hope i win app is because i think it would really perhaps inspire a movement by which the democrats get their soul back not the people but the party sure i heard some people say that if nixon were running today you'd be the most

liberal democrat i hope there it's pretty shocking how far right everything is kind of shifted let's talk about your fund raising efforts according to open secrets you've already raised over three hundred thousand dollars far surpassing your other opponents how we've been able to do this. it's grassroots you know part of the way americans are locked out today and that's why i'm running this campaign the average american is locked out of what should be considered the minimum in terms of access to political influence educational opportunity and economic opportunity and the way that works of course with this legalized system of bribery and corruption we have especially since citizens united by which money forces wield such disproportionate influence over our political system compared to the average citizen is how expensive it is to run for office if you don't either have wealth or have access to wealth so i looked at my four hundred thousand names on the. book and my two hundred thousand on twitter because i i have been writing books you know my first

book came out in one thousand nine hundred two so i've been out there for a while and i thought to myself looking at my social media. numbers i thought well if everybody sends me five dollars i could do this and my it's a grassroots campaign and i've announced publicly i'm not taking pac money i'm not taking lobbyist money and my average donation is fifty nine dollars. that's how it should be at one. time i just wanted to do a couple more things that is incredible but you're saying that you're still not being treated as a legitimate candidate even though you've made a lot of money through grassroots funders and i mean what other factors are leading to your dismissal. well you know what the fact is are is this sort of media political elite but it's ok that's what i would if i were the democrats today my strategy would be to ignore me and pretend that i don't exist so you know i can't blame them. i just and the media you know i think when henry waxman first

announced his retirement it's all horse races and it's all in the horse race is that the democrat of that democrat but you know part of running with any real principle is that the horse race is that what you're doing this for and you know the only the only the only thing that matters is what the voters have to say on june third on our primary june third so i think a lot of people are coming to understand that i would not be a threat to the democratic party i don't think anybody sees bernie sanders as a threat to the democratic party and also people are coming to understand that he doesn't lack power in the senate i think that people here in los angeles are beginning to understand that the election of an independent candidate particularly someone running on the platform of getting the money out of politics would really help create a space an opening a possibility for this kind of a candidacy and a winning candidacy throughout the country and l.a. likes to do things first you know this is. a district that doesn't really like same

ole same ole anything and people are really responding to the idea that we start new conversations here this is what we do this is why people live in california california this area starts a new conversation it's a national trend within five years and i think that's one of the selling points of this campaign i think it's an exciting idea that was just not going to be perpetuating the system as it is when all of us know it's not working indeed california a lot of things in motion here let's talk about some the other major points of your political platform you're on board with several bills that represent a proposed including the meritorious of the use of drones the repeal of the authorization for use of military force i mean as much as i believe in these things these issues seem to be dead in the water on capitol hill how would you get congress to seriously consider them. well listen i'm not naive about what one congresswoman can do particularly a first term congress person who particularly now that it's an open seat anybody will be so i'm not naive i wouldn't be going to washington with

a magic wand no one would and no one should be able to but on the other hand i think conviction is a force multiplier and particularly as an independent candidate not feeling shackled i think that my hopefully the contribution of my voice both within congress and because i have a national platform of some kind outside of congress as well to use whatever power that i have in terms of audience nationally to talk about these things in a way that makes more people wake up and more people ask their congress people and their candidates around the country what of what's going on with these drones i don't think the average person even realizes abbi the power of these things they will they can know who you slept with what you just logged onto on your computer what room you just walked into and they are coming and you know the same the same government that has had to been forced to acknowledge n.s.a. spying tells us in relation to drones not to worry. because they are going to have to adhere to all privacy laws state federal and local americans who listen to this

are god following we just need to to continue the buzz it's like you create with your show a lot of voices are out there now i think something's already rumbling and i just believe that these voices need to also be represented in a like ok in a city like mine something is death labor in a revolution of consciousness thanks for being a part of that marianne williamson congressional candidate california's district thirty three really appreciate you coming on. thank you that's our show you guys join me again tomorrow and i break this all over again.

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